Talks - Yamas and Niyamas part 3 Ashtanga Yoga

Yamas and Niyamas part 3 Ashtanga Yoga

Yamas and Niyamas part 3 Ashtanga Yoga

Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami
, 2002-05-13

The Yamas are the first stage of the spiritual path. It is the first step in ashtanga yoga, followed by niyama. If someone want to follow the traditional yoga path, they must master the yamas and the niyamas. The yamas an niyamas are advice, not commandments. This means that these are the ideals toward which we strive, but if we fall a little short, that is not a catastrophe. We must try better next time.

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Another way of at looking at the Yamas - the first stage of spiritual

practice. Of course, that is most pointedly seen in ashtanga yoga or the

eight-limbed yoga or the eight stages of yoga that are common. First

stage, of course, is Yama. That points out, it is first, right? No question